Keep It Together
Well, I haven't thrown my TV or computer out the window yet, but if they keep showing Donald Trump's stupid face it's gonna get harder to resist. If I may quote Robert DeNiro regarding...
Gay Gay Gay
There. I said the word "gay". Good thing I'm not in Florida. But back in 1970, it wasn't a very safe word. Stonewall made a big dent in that. And in 1970 I joined...
An Unexpected Encounter
It never occurred to me that a lovely conversation with a woman in the waiting room at the doctor's office would turn into something completely different. While we talked about how many doctors have...
The So-Called Threat to Our Borders
Two events inform this narrative.
First, I was called out of my advanced math exam at 10:00 am on January 18th, 1963. I was six months short of 18. The school secretary at Benjamin Franklin...
Running Toward the Cliff
I guess I really didn't expect things to go downhill toward authoritarianism quite so quickly, even after Nixon, Reagan, Bush the Elder, Bush the Younger. Somehow I misread the signs and didn't take into...
